QCon is a practitioner-driven conference designed for technical team leads, architects, and project managers who influence software innovation in their teams.

Speakers at QCon London 2013

 Adam  Blum
Adam Blum,
CEO of Rhomobile
 Alain  Hélaïli
Alain Hélaïli,
EMEA Sales Engineering Director at Compuware
 Alasdair  Nottingham
Alasdair Nottingham,
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
 Alex  Papadimoulis
Alex Papadimoulis,
Partner at Inedo and Editor of The Daily WTF
 Alvin  Richards
Alvin Richards,
Senior Technical Director, 10gen (the MongoDB company)
 Andrew  Clegg
Andrew Clegg,
Data Analytics Technical Manager at Pearson
 Andrew  Crump
Andrew Crump,
Founder of CloudCredo
 Andrew  Elmore
Andrew Elmore,
Head of Development at C24
 Andrew  Godwin
Andrew Godwin,
Writing shiny things for Lanyrd
 Andy  Gross
Andy Gross,
Co-Creator of Riak, Chief Architect at Basho
 Arun  Gupta
Arun Gupta,
Java EE & GlassFish Guy, Oracle
 Ashwani  Roy
Ashwani Roy,
Masters in Finance at London Business School
 Attila  Narin
Attila Narin,
Sr Manager, Solutions Architecture – AWS
 Barbara  Liskov
Barbara Liskov,
Institute Professor at MIT
 Baruch  Sadogursky
Baruch Sadogursky,
Community Advocate at JFrog
 Ben  Christensen
Ben Christensen,
Software Engineer at Netflix
 Benjamin  Mitchell
Benjamin Mitchell,
Systems Thinking, Lean and Kanban for Software Product Development
 Bryan  Dove
Bryan Dove,
Skype's Data Team Lead
 Charles  Cai
Charles Cai,
Managing Director, Socialogix Limited
 Chris  Hedley
Chris Hedley,
Senior Consultant at CloudCredo
 Chris  Molozian
Chris Molozian,
Software Engineer at Basho
 Chris  Swan
Chris Swan,
Strategist, Architect & Advisor
 Christophe  Coenraets
Christophe Coenraets,
Technical Evangelist for Adobe
 Damian  Conway
Damian Conway,
Perl Boffin, Thoughtstream
 Damien  Dallimore
Damien Dallimore,
Developer Evangelist
 Dan  North
Dan North,
Agile Troublemaker & Inventor of BDD
 Darach  Ennis
Darach Ennis,
VP of Engineering at Push Technology
 Dave  Cliff
Dave Cliff,
Professor at University of Bristol
 David  Craelius
David Craelius,
CTO of Klarna
 David  Dawson
David Dawson,
Principal Consultant at Simplicity Itself
 David  Heath
David Heath,
Developer at GOV.UK
 David  Rogers
David Rogers,
Senior Technical Architect in BBC Future Media
 Dio  Synodinos
Dio Synodinos,
Research Platform Team Lead at C4Media
 Douwe  Osinga
Douwe Osinga,
Co-Founder of Triposo
 Fernando  Orellana
Fernando Orellana,
Associate Professor of Digital Art at Union College
 Francesco  Cesarini
Francesco Cesarini,
Founder of Erlang Solutions & author of Erlang Programming
 Frank  Greco
Frank Greco,
Director of Technology, Kaazing Corporation
 Gareth  Rushgrove
Gareth Rushgrove,
Web geek, GOV.UK
 Gil  Tene
Gil Tene,
CTO and Co-founder, Azul Systems
 Glen  Ford
Glen Ford,
Chief Architect at zeebox
 Gojko  Adzic
Gojko Adzic,
Strategic Software Delivery Consultant
 Graham  Lee
Graham Lee,
Security consultant and author of "Professional Cocoa Application Security"
 Greg  Young
Greg Young,
Independent Consultant & Entrepreneur
 Heather  Willems
Heather Willems,
Principal at ImageThink
 Horia  Dragomir
Horia Dragomir,
Metrics-driven game development
 Ian  Brookes
Ian Brookes,
Director of Cake Solutions
 Ian  Robinson
Ian Robinson,
Author of "REST in Practice", Neo Technology
 Israel  Boza Rodriguez
Israel Boza Rodriguez,
Software Developer at LMAX
 Jamie  Engesser
Jamie Engesser,
Hortonworks - Vice President, Solutions Engineering
 Janne Jul  Jensen
Janne Jul Jensen,
Interaction Designer and Usability Specialist
 Jeni  Tennison
Jeni Tennison,
Technical Director of the Open Data Institute
 Jesper  Richter-Reichhelm
Jesper Richter-Reichhelm,
Head of Engineering at Wooga
 Jim  Hirschauer
Jim Hirschauer,
Technology Evangelist at AppDynamics
 Jim  Webber
Jim Webber,
Chief Scientist at Neo Technology & Co-Author of "Rest in Practice"
 John  O'Hara
John O'Hara,
CEO Taskize Ltd.
 John T  Davies
John T Davies,
CTO and Founder of Incept5
 Jon  Moore
Jon Moore,
Software Craftsman, Code Artisan & Engineer Philosopher
 Jon  Tirsen
Jon Tirsen,
CTO Triposo
 Justin  Holmes
Justin Holmes,
Consultant at OpenCredo
 Katherine  Kirk
Katherine Kirk,
Independent Consultant & Researcher
 Kirk  Pepperdine
Kirk Pepperdine,
Expert in Java Performance Tuning, Sun Java Champion
 Lukas  Oberhuber
Lukas Oberhuber,
CTO at Simply Business
 Marc  Pacheco
Marc Pacheco,
Client Side Architect
 Mark  Nottingham
Mark Nottingham,
Akamai Technologies
 Martijn  Verburg
Martijn Verburg,
CTO of jClarity
 Martin  Thompson
Martin Thompson,
High-Performance Computing Specialist
 Mat  Wall
Mat Wall,
Technical Architect, Government Digital Service
 Matt  Asay
Matt Asay,
VP of Corporate Strategy, 10gen
 Maximiliano  Firtman
Maximiliano Firtman,
Adobe Community Professional
 Michael  Nuciforo
Michael Nuciforo,
Global Mobile Thought Leader & Futurist
 Mike  Amundsen
Mike Amundsen,
Principal API Architect for Layer 7 Technologies
 Mike  Hadlow
Mike Hadlow,
Author of WsdlWorks & Suteki Shop
 Ole  Friis Østergaard
Ole Friis Østergaard,
Software Developer at Silverbullet
 Paul  Downey
Paul Downey,
The doodler behind 'The Web is Agreement'
 Paul  Shannon
Paul Shannon,
Assistant Director of Technology at 7digital
 Peter  Niederwieser
Peter Niederwieser,
Computer Language Enthusiast at Gradleware
 Phil  Calcado
Phil Calcado,
Soundcloud
 Quentin  Adam
Quentin Adam,
CEO at Clever Cloud
 Rafiq  Gemmail
Rafiq Gemmail,
Dreamthought Technologies
 Rain  Ashford
Rain Ashford,
Freelance Consultant
 Remko van Dokkum
Remko van Dokkum,
Interaction Design Engineer
 Richard  Croucher
Richard Croucher,
Chief Architect at Informatix Solutions
 Richard  Garsthagen
Richard Garsthagen,
Director of Cloud Business Development at Oracle
 Rickard  Oberg
Rickard Oberg,
Neo Technology
 Rob  Strange
Rob Strange,
CTO, Sphonic.com
 Robbie  Clutton
Robbie Clutton,
Software Engineer & General Geek
 Robert  Annett
Robert Annett,
All successful systems become legacy eventually
 Robert  Shilston
Robert Shilston,
Director, Labs Division, Financial Times
 Romilly  Cocking
Romilly Cocking,
Independent Consultant
 Russell  Miles
Russell Miles,
Co-Author of Head First Software Development
 Savas  Parastatidis
Savas Parastatidis,
Software Architect in the Online Services Division at Microsoft
 Shane  Williams
Shane Williams,
Regional Head of Mobile Dev. in Switzerland at UBS
 Simon  Metson
Simon Metson,
Cloudant Engineer
 Simon  Peyton Jones
Simon Peyton Jones,
Co-inventor of Haskell, Principal Researcher @Microsoft
 Stefan  Tilkov
Stefan Tilkov,
SOA and REST authority, innoQ founder
 Stephen  Nelson-Smith
Stephen Nelson-Smith,
CTO at Strategic Blue
 Steve  Freeman
Steve Freeman,
Pioneer of Agile, Chair the first London XpDay
 Steven  Sanderson
Steven Sanderson,
Developer at Microsoft
 Tim  Park
Tim Park,
Part of the Platform Strategy Team at Microsoft
 Tim  Savage
Tim Savage,
Armakuni Ltd
 Toby  O'Rourke
Toby O'Rourke,
Technical Architect at Gamesys
 Tom  Coupland
Tom Coupland,
Senior Engineer at Nokia Entertainment
 Torben  Hoffmann
Torben Hoffmann,
Product & Research Manager for Erlang Solutions
 Tormod  Varhaugvik
Tormod Varhaugvik,
Enterprise & Solutions Architect at Tax Norway
 Trisha  Gee
Trisha Gee,
Developer 10gen, the MongoDB Company
 Vladimir  Sneblic
Vladimir Sneblic,
Lead Consultant at ThoughtWorks
 Ward  Cunningham
Ward Cunningham,
Host of AgileManifesto.org
 Zenon  Hannick
Zenon Hannick,
Comic Relief
 Zoe  Slattery
Zoe Slattery,
Freelance Software Developer
 Ömer  Kilic
Ömer Kilic,
Embedded Systems Engineer at Erlang Solutions
 Alex  Batlin
Alex Batlin,
Director in UBS's Technology Innovation, Research & Development Team

Speakers Sorted by Name/Company

First name Last name Company
Quentin Adam CEO at Clever Cloud
Gojko Adzic Strategic Software Delivery Consultant
Mike Amundsen Principal API Architect for Layer 7 Technologies
Robert Annett All successful systems become legacy eventually
Matt Asay VP of Corporate Strategy, 10gen
Rain Ashford Freelance Consultant
Alex Batlin Director in UBS's Technology Innovation, Research & Development Team
Adam Blum CEO of Rhomobile
Israel Boza Rodriguez Software Developer at LMAX
Ian Brookes Director of Cake Solutions
Charles Cai Managing Director, Socialogix Limited
Phil Calcado Soundcloud
Francesco Cesarini Founder of Erlang Solutions & author of Erlang Programming
Ben Christensen Software Engineer at Netflix
Andrew Clegg Data Analytics Technical Manager at Pearson
Dave Cliff Professor at University of Bristol
Robbie Clutton Software Engineer & General Geek
Romilly Cocking Independent Consultant
Christophe Coenraets Technical Evangelist for Adobe
Damian Conway Perl Boffin, Thoughtstream
Tom Coupland Senior Engineer at Nokia Entertainment
David Craelius CTO of Klarna
Richard Croucher Chief Architect at Informatix Solutions
Andrew Crump Founder of CloudCredo
Ward Cunningham Host of AgileManifesto.org
Damien Dallimore Developer Evangelist
John T Davies CTO and Founder of Incept5
David Dawson Principal Consultant at Simplicity Itself
Remko Dokkum Interaction Design Engineer
Bryan Dove Skype's Data Team Lead
Paul Downey The doodler behind 'The Web is Agreement'
Horia Dragomir Metrics-driven game development
Andrew Elmore Head of Development at C24
Jamie Engesser Hortonworks - Vice President, Solutions Engineering
Darach Ennis VP of Engineering at Push Technology
Maximiliano Firtman Adobe Community Professional
Glen Ford Chief Architect at zeebox
Steve Freeman Pioneer of Agile, Chair the first London XpDay
Ole Friis Østergaard Software Developer at Silverbullet
Richard Garsthagen Director of Cloud Business Development at Oracle
Trisha Gee Developer 10gen, the MongoDB Company
Rafiq Gemmail Dreamthought Technologies
Andrew Godwin Writing shiny things for Lanyrd
Frank Greco Director of Technology, Kaazing Corporation
Andy Gross Co-Creator of Riak, Chief Architect at Basho
Arun Gupta Java EE & GlassFish Guy, Oracle
Mike Hadlow Author of WsdlWorks & Suteki Shop
Zenon Hannick Comic Relief
David Heath Developer at GOV.UK
Chris Hedley Senior Consultant at CloudCredo
Jim Hirschauer Technology Evangelist at AppDynamics
Torben Hoffmann Product & Research Manager for Erlang Solutions
Justin Holmes Consultant at OpenCredo
Alain Hélaïli EMEA Sales Engineering Director at Compuware
Janne Jul Jensen Interaction Designer and Usability Specialist
Ömer Kilic Embedded Systems Engineer at Erlang Solutions
Katherine Kirk Independent Consultant & Researcher
Graham Lee Security consultant and author of "Professional Cocoa Application Security"
Barbara Liskov Institute Professor at MIT
Simon Metson Cloudant Engineer
Russell Miles Co-Author of Head First Software Development
Benjamin Mitchell Systems Thinking, Lean and Kanban for Software Product Development
Chris Molozian Software Engineer at Basho
Jon Moore Software Craftsman, Code Artisan & Engineer Philosopher
Attila Narin Sr Manager, Solutions Architecture – AWS
Stephen Nelson-Smith CTO at Strategic Blue
Peter Niederwieser Computer Language Enthusiast at Gradleware
Dan North Agile Troublemaker & Inventor of BDD
Alasdair Nottingham Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Mark Nottingham Akamai Technologies
Michael Nuciforo Global Mobile Thought Leader & Futurist
John O'Hara CEO Taskize Ltd.
Toby O'Rourke Technical Architect at Gamesys
Rickard Oberg Neo Technology
Lukas Oberhuber CTO at Simply Business
Fernando Orellana Associate Professor of Digital Art at Union College
Douwe Osinga Co-Founder of Triposo
Marc Pacheco Client Side Architect
Alex Papadimoulis Partner at Inedo and Editor of The Daily WTF
Savas Parastatidis Software Architect in the Online Services Division at Microsoft
Tim Park Part of the Platform Strategy Team at Microsoft
Kirk Pepperdine Expert in Java Performance Tuning, Sun Java Champion
Simon Peyton Jones Co-inventor of Haskell, Principal Researcher @Microsoft
Alvin Richards Senior Technical Director, 10gen (the MongoDB company)
Jesper Richter-Reichhelm Head of Engineering at Wooga
Ian Robinson Author of "REST in Practice", Neo Technology
David Rogers Senior Technical Architect in BBC Future Media
Ashwani Roy Masters in Finance at London Business School
Gareth Rushgrove Web geek, GOV.UK
Baruch Sadogursky Community Advocate at JFrog
Steven Sanderson Developer at Microsoft
Tim Savage Armakuni Ltd
Paul Shannon Assistant Director of Technology at 7digital
Robert Shilston Director, Labs Division, Financial Times
Zoe Slattery Freelance Software Developer
Vladimir Sneblic Lead Consultant at ThoughtWorks
Rob Strange CTO, Sphonic.com
Chris Swan Strategist, Architect & Advisor
Dio Synodinos Research Platform Team Lead at C4Media
Gil Tene CTO and Co-founder, Azul Systems
Jeni Tennison Technical Director of the Open Data Institute
Martin Thompson High-Performance Computing Specialist
Stefan Tilkov SOA and REST authority, innoQ founder
Jon Tirsen CTO Triposo
Tormod Varhaugvik Enterprise & Solutions Architect at Tax Norway
Martijn Verburg CTO of jClarity
Mat Wall Technical Architect, Government Digital Service
Jim Webber Chief Scientist at Neo Technology & Co-Author of "Rest in Practice"
Heather Willems Principal at ImageThink
Shane Williams Regional Head of Mobile Dev. in Switzerland at UBS
Greg Young Independent Consultant & Entrepreneur